Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Sicut cervus
Stephen Paulus: The Road Home
Arvo Pärt: The Deer’s Cry
Joseph Haydn: The Wanderer (arr. Voces8)
Franz Schubert: Erlkönig, Chor der Engel
John Wilby: Draw on, Sweet Night
Arthus Sullivan: The Long Day Closes
Antonín Dvorák: Going Home
Gabriel Fauré: Après un rêve etc.
Who says that travel is always an uplifting and joyous experience? Travel can mean having to flee, wandering around aimlessly, losing one’s way. The great Romantic composers exploited these ideas, but also Josef Haydn, who described an eerie walk by moonlight in his Lied “The Wanderer”. Voces8 take this as the title of their programme, in which they plumb the fathomless depths of the soul, as in Schubert’s “Erlkönig”, and explore the solace of paths followed in sweet melancholy in the still of the night– and all this, of course, with their incomparable a-cappella singing.
